Blue Truck, Red State: Flannel Boards and How to Use Them (1958)

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Flannel Boards and How to Use Them (1958)

Oh my, does this bring back memories of my early school days, and Sunday School, too. Your Head Trucker has often wondered in the long years since then just how the little paper figurines stayed there on the flannel. Do you know? All is revealed in this charmingly straightforward demonstration film from 1958.

2 comments:

Frank said...: A simpler time. Too bad flannel boards can solve today's problems.; June 22, 2017 at 1:04 PM
Russ Manley said...: I think you meant to say "can't" - to which my reply might be, Has anyone ever tried? High tech doesn't seem to be working well.; June 23, 2017 at 12:43 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu